WHO'S UP FOR THE OSCAR?
Good evening. I'll get to the Oscar nominations in a bit, but first...
Earlier tonight, President Bush gave his fifth State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The main topic was prying America from its long dependence of Middle East oil, but a bigger story before the speech involved Cindy Sheehan yet again. Minutes prior, she was arrested by Capitol Police after she caused a disruption.
Calling for more money for science and math education as well as tax benefits for health saving accounts were also on the agenda tonight. The Democratic response was by new Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, who stated that Bush ignored the national debt, Medicaid cuts, and trying to rebuild the hurricane-wounded Gulf Coast during his speech.
While all that was going on, there were a bunch of protests in many parts of the country in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco all orchestrated by World Can't Wait, an organization whose mission is to see the Bush Admimistration throw in the towel without waiting till 2008. I don't know about any Alaskan protests in Anchorage or Fairbanks, but if there were they probably had them indoors because of the continuing frigid weather here in the latter.
Now, the L.A. protest started at the Hollywood and Highland complex where the Kodak Theater is. And speaking of the Kodak Theater...it will be where a month from now we could be seeing a Gunfight at the Oscar Corral as far as "Brokeback Mountain's" chances at some booty are concerned!
That's right! Nominations for the 78th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, and the main stories were "Brokeback" ponying up eight nods including Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), Actor and Supporting Actress (Real-life couple Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams), Director (Ang Lee), and Best Picture of 2005, and George Clooney's triple threat: Supporting Actor for "Syriana," and Original Screenplay and Director for "Good Night, and Good Luck."
Meanwhile, it will be a showdown between Felicity Huffman and Reese Witherspoon for Best Actress while Keira Knightley and past winners Judi Dench and Charlize Theron will sit it out. Terrence Howard surprisingly competes again Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and David Strathaim in the Best Actor prize; and in Best Picture, along with "Brokeback", there's also "Capote", "Crash", "Good Night, and Good Luck", and "Munich." Oh yeah, and "March of the Penguins" is easily up for Documentary Feature, a prize "Super Size Me" almost won last year.
And then there are those whose bubbles were burst, like "Walk The Line" for Best Picture, "Cinderella Man" deprived of any main nods (except for Paul Giamatti's Supporting Actor), and Ziyi Zhang on the Best Actress side. "King Kong" received some recognition from the Academy...but only with four meaningless categories.
The 78th Annual Academy Awards, with Jon Stewart guiding us through the most unpredictable 3 1/2-to-I-don't-know-how-long-they'll-go-to hours in entertainment, will be handed out on Sunday, March 5. Why March? They don't want the Winter Olympics to get in Oscar's way, that's why.
So, will Reese walk the line to Oscar gold, or will "Crash" crash the gay cowboys' party? There are plenty of anwers to these questions and more on that date. Good night, world!
Good evening. I'll get to the Oscar nominations in a bit, but first...
Earlier tonight, President Bush gave his fifth State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The main topic was prying America from its long dependence of Middle East oil, but a bigger story before the speech involved Cindy Sheehan yet again. Minutes prior, she was arrested by Capitol Police after she caused a disruption.
Calling for more money for science and math education as well as tax benefits for health saving accounts were also on the agenda tonight. The Democratic response was by new Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, who stated that Bush ignored the national debt, Medicaid cuts, and trying to rebuild the hurricane-wounded Gulf Coast during his speech.
While all that was going on, there were a bunch of protests in many parts of the country in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco all orchestrated by World Can't Wait, an organization whose mission is to see the Bush Admimistration throw in the towel without waiting till 2008. I don't know about any Alaskan protests in Anchorage or Fairbanks, but if there were they probably had them indoors because of the continuing frigid weather here in the latter.
Now, the L.A. protest started at the Hollywood and Highland complex where the Kodak Theater is. And speaking of the Kodak Theater...it will be where a month from now we could be seeing a Gunfight at the Oscar Corral as far as "Brokeback Mountain's" chances at some booty are concerned!
That's right! Nominations for the 78th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, and the main stories were "Brokeback" ponying up eight nods including Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), Actor and Supporting Actress (Real-life couple Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams), Director (Ang Lee), and Best Picture of 2005, and George Clooney's triple threat: Supporting Actor for "Syriana," and Original Screenplay and Director for "Good Night, and Good Luck."
Meanwhile, it will be a showdown between Felicity Huffman and Reese Witherspoon for Best Actress while Keira Knightley and past winners Judi Dench and Charlize Theron will sit it out. Terrence Howard surprisingly competes again Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and David Strathaim in the Best Actor prize; and in Best Picture, along with "Brokeback", there's also "Capote", "Crash", "Good Night, and Good Luck", and "Munich." Oh yeah, and "March of the Penguins" is easily up for Documentary Feature, a prize "Super Size Me" almost won last year.
And then there are those whose bubbles were burst, like "Walk The Line" for Best Picture, "Cinderella Man" deprived of any main nods (except for Paul Giamatti's Supporting Actor), and Ziyi Zhang on the Best Actress side. "King Kong" received some recognition from the Academy...but only with four meaningless categories.
The 78th Annual Academy Awards, with Jon Stewart guiding us through the most unpredictable 3 1/2-to-I-don't-know-how-long-they'll-go-to hours in entertainment, will be handed out on Sunday, March 5. Why March? They don't want the Winter Olympics to get in Oscar's way, that's why.
So, will Reese walk the line to Oscar gold, or will "Crash" crash the gay cowboys' party? There are plenty of anwers to these questions and more on that date. Good night, world!
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